How soon could ExxonMobil’s low-carbon business overtake oil and gas revenues?
ExxonMobil’s low-carbon business has the potential to generate hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue and outperform the company’s traditional oil and gas side...
LSU report touts potential of planned carbon capture hub in Calcasieu Parish
A planned carbon capture and sequestration hub in Calcasieu Parish could abate some $11 billion in environmental damages over its lifetime, according to a new...
Placid Refining moving headquarters from Dallas to Baton Rouge
Placid Refining will move its headquarters from Dallas to Baton Rouge and modernize its existing local facility in Port Allen, investing $66 million in...
CF Industries to pay $1.7 billion for IPL’s Waggaman plant
CF Industries Holdings Inc. announced Monday that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement with Incitec Pivot Limited for IPL’s ammonia production complex in...
U.S. sues chemical company over cancer risk to Louisiana community
Federal officials sued a chemical maker last week, alleging that its plant presents an unacceptable cancer risk to a nearby majority-black south Louisiana community...
‘Forever chemicals’ detected at five Louisiana sites along the Mississippi River
Some of the “forever chemicals” that scientists have linked to various health risks were found at five different locations of the Mississippi River in...
Long-awaited Baton Rouge ExxonMobil plastics plant expansion goes online
State and city-parish officials and ExxonMobil leadership celebrated the startup of the company’s long-awaited polypropylene growth project at its north Baton Rouge plant last...
Placid Refinery pays $4.8M for BRAF’s former Baton Rouge headquarters
Port Allen’s Placid Refining Co. has purchased the building that formerly housed the Baton Rouge Area Foundation along with a parking lot straddling the...
BASF breaks ground on $780 million MDI capacity upgrade in Geismar
BASF has broken ground on the third and final phase of its expansion project for polyurethane precursor MDI at its integrated site in Geismar,...
Company with Louisiana project completes first CO2 direct-air capture
Startup Climeworks AG achieved an important milestone recently by successfully pulling CO2 from the open air and storing it underground for the first time, The Wall...
